Preferential Attachment with Flexible Heavy Tails

Thomas Boughen
t.w.boughen1@newcastle.ac.uk

Newcastle Univeristy

Clement Lee
Clement.Lee@newcastle.ac.uk

Newcastle Univeristy

Vianey Palacios Ramirez
vianey.palacios-ramirez@newcastle.ac.uk

Newcastle Univeristy

June 4, 2025

Motivation

What Degree Distributions Tell Us

The Problem with Mechanistic Models

Preferential Attachment

Insights on the Preference Function

Building a Model

Recovering Parameters from Degrees

Real World Application

More Than Just the Degrees

Takeaways

Future Work

Thank You

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